Use this
template to make "Periodic Table Cards"
of the common elements.

Have students
do this "Periodic Table" Crossword Puzzle .

Play "Elements
Bingo" by randomly selecting
elements from a paper copy
of the periodic table, randomly selecting an element and calling out
the
name of the element while crossing it off the periodic table.
Students
mark the symbol of that element on their bingo cards .
(This file has 36 prefilled cards.)

Play Tom
Lehrer's "The
Elements"
song or show thisFlash
animation of the song by Mike Stanfill.

Try this Discovery
School "Science
Hits" activity where students
will listen to a recording of “The Elements”
by Tom Lehrer (1960) and write their own song for recalling scientific
information.

"Arsenic
and Old Lace: The Chemistry
Connection" is
a WebQuest that uses
the old movie and has different students in a group act as chemist,
doctor,
historian, and reporter to produce a video for the class. An
evaluation
rubric is included.

Do this
"Elements"
crossword puzzle with answers.

Or
have students do this "Elements and the Periodic Table" crossword
puzzle.

In "Element
Clues"
students place "known" element cards (included) in the order of the
periodic
table and then figure out the identity of the "unknown" element cards
by
their properties.

Show The
World of Chemistry video,
"A State of Matter," and have students
answer the questions on this "World of Chemistry: The Periodic
Table"
worksheet.

"The
Universal Periodic Table "
includes a teacher demonstration and a middle
school student activity that involves helping alien scientists design a
periodic table for their elements. The student activity
sheet, blank
periodic table, and answers are provided.

Try M.
Horton's "Element Hunt Project"
where students collect as many pure
elements as they can aruond the home and create a poster with them.

In the game Castle
Mendeleev students explore the
18-room castle where each
room in entirely made of one of the elements in the first three rows of
the periodic table. Colleen Bennett of the NSTA Listserve
supplied these teacher notes with the answers
and, since the game is no longer online, I compiled this file of
the game and this worksheet with
a crossword puzzle.

Similar
to the "Martian Periodic Table" activity, "The Alien Periodic Table
Challenge," is
a bit more creative. I
have included a periodic table chart
and these are the answers supplied by
someone from "WIKI Answers" .
After the lab, follow-up
with this "Alien Periodic Table Analysis"
using this PowerPoint.